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Physical description:
Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Event; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Event
Date:
1972
Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
Featured in TORCH, January 1973
Summary:
Secretary S. Dillon Ripley presents the Benefactor Medallion to Mrs. Marguerite Henrich Kellogg (widow of A. Remington Kellogg, Assistant Curator Division of Mammals, USNM, 1928-1948; Director, USNM, 1948-1962; Assistant Secretary and Acting Director of National Museum of Natural History, 1958-1962), 18 December 1972. Mrs. Kellogg is the first recipient of the Medal. She has established a research fund in her husband's memory to advance knowledge of fossil marine mammals and has given the Institution her husband's scientific library.
Contained within:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 1, Folder: January 1973